I've only played for a few hours, but I can't see playing long term. The entire game just seems to be unnecessarily convoluted. There's so much random **** going on on-screen at any given time, I couldn't even tell what half of it was. If everything falls into place at some point it seems like it could be a lot of fun, but who knows.

BDO is on Steam now and I started playing it a week or so ago. Super friggin' grindy in some ways and super easy in others. Combat is nearly a joke until ~45 when all of a sudden stuff gets tougher and xp slows to a trickle after 50. Different tradeskills but much of it is done via hired workers or AFK autoplaying. It's a nice Pretty Girl Generator, I suppose. There's like a billion convoluted things to do besides combat but the combat itself is flashy and fun (if, again, trivially easy through much of the game).

Anyway, seems easy enough to get $10 worth of play time out of it even if you only play until you hit a wall and move on.

There's like a billion convoluted things to do besides combat but the combat itself is flashy and fun (if, again, trivially easy through much of the game).

That's how I felt when I started, then gradually got the hang of it. I quit for awhile because of the insane RNG aspect, but I'm playing again.

Regarding the combat, it's the best combat of any MMO I've played, ever. And it's probably going to be a long time before another game tops it. I just wish everything else in the game weren't such a nightmare.